The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-22

dom woke up at such an unearthly hour I
troubled myself no more about it. There
fore "a steady sweeps" was, to my mind q
new addition to my staff of helpers. Like
his class he did q deal of talking all about
nothing.
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF A STRAINER.
In the end discovered that while at his
work in the morning he had, without his
knowledge, carried away wire tea strJainer
in the SCOT, where it had dropped on the
stone hearth of the Kitchen mine or some
other bodys. The strainer was worth, if
new, about apenny, and having seen hard
service it was not then worth quarter of
that modest sum. ''Oi didn't go to prig it
missus, no fear" he urged me Solemnly, $50
Owe been tramping round the whole blessed
parish to all my 'steadys' to find out where
this ere strainer is a miSSin'." Truth to tell
| had no idea whether it was mine or not,
but | gave him couple of pence to buy the
usual ''glass of beer' if he liked. and re-
tanned the strainer for further consultation
with the feminine head of my regions below
stairs. Eventually l found it was mine,
having been thrown away weeks before on
the fire, whence it had slipped through to
the hearth tell the story as a proof of
honesty in a humble man, who was SO con-
scientious he took the two pence only with
urging Only to drink your health misSrs,
not for the strainer moind.n The strainer
he had carefully rolled up in his handker-
chief, which bit of cloth was as black as its
owner.
FAMILY OF WORKERS.
The sweep keeps in the same line of bust
ness all his life and brings up his children to
the same line. His wife goes "a charming
The char-woman is essentially an English
institution. 'Choring" was probably the
word at first, and it has become
''charring" by use, for the doing of
odd chores is her business. She will come
to you for an hour, two hours or day, and
you, pay her accordingly. She makes fires,
COOKS your breakfast, washes up dishes or
scrubs. As rule she is fairly competent,
and she keeps her regular round of places
year IN and year out, only stopping to at
tend to the calls of her maternity At these
wifely periods innate" or friend of hers
takes her places so that she may not lose
them. You pay the char-woman from one
and SIX to two shillings day and her
keep" or, to translate, her meals. Odd
hours you pay six pence or a shilling for. ae-
cording to the way in which you arrange
matters with her, and generally you bestow
on her the broken pieceS,n as they call the
''cold victuals' in England
THE JOLLY DUsTMAN.
Another grayish bit of sunshine comes in
the door as | write of the char-woman and
goes round to the back yard. This is the
''dust-hoy'' man. He goes to the wooden
dust bin in the yard, which is filled with
your accumulations Of ashes, cinders and
like burnt trash but not decayed vegetables
The ''dustman" is gray, not black, of ap-
pearance He wears leather pieces strapped
over his knees, and a sort OF tarpaulin coat,
with a weather beaten leather hat. He
gets the ashes and two pence, or the tradi-
tional glass Of beer" as you prefer The
ashes he sells to the manufacturers who use
them in their wares He is "a merry soul,
always joking the housemaids When you
want him you place in your front kitchen a
pasteboard card, on which is printed the
mystic word Dust" or a single I'D, " mean
ing that the bin is full and you need the ser
vice of his example of London's human sun
shine. ANNIE w AKEMAN,